Friday, April 5, 2013

Teri Meri Kahaani (2012)


Just another to add to the list of crappy movies I watch because Shahid Kapoor is in them. Shahid and Priyanka Chopra play triple roles of 3 different couples in 3 different time periods. The problem, of course, is that there’s no actual plot, or anything linking the three stories. They get together for no discernible reason, and then something stupid happens to keep them apart. The songs are good, and everything looks really nice, so it's not a complete loss, just a disappointment.

We start with 1960s Mumbai. Shahid is a musician, Priyanka is an actress. She’s very pretty.




2010s London. They are young, and hip. They drink beer. They text, and tweet, and facebook.

I feel embarrassed to even own a cell phone 

Yeah, this was a song where the text-speak lyrics go dancing across the screen. It was pretty awful.

The 1910s segment is this close to actually having a plot, and was the most fun besides. Shahid looks just as realistic as the muscle-bound casanova of Lahore as Priyanka does holding a goat and swinging around her hair extensions, but you know, they’re pretty, so who cares. We aren’t in this for the story at this point. 








Besides horrible poetry, Shahid finally gets to dance, and we can spend an enjoyable five minutes watching him waggle his pelvis all over creation.




This is where I thought we would find some sort of theme for the movie, some connection between the three stories. We don’t. Their reunions are just as contrived as their separations, and I didn’t see the universality in their relationships that I assume the director intended. It's really disappointing that the script gives us no reason to care about any of the 6 characters in the movie, because I would have really enjoyed a grand love story with Shahid and Priyanka. When they have the right material, I really like them. This movie is just so shallow, and not in a fun, Dostana way. Just a wasted potential way.




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